St.-Petersburg. Tavrichesky Palace, to N.G.Poletaev, member of the State Duma.

We (and no one else) have not made any new proposals to you. Everything remains as agreed. Igor is intriguing and, of course, in favor of the liquidators. It is necessary to simply unsubscribe from him. It will be enough if the faction will answer him approximately as follows: "Not considering it convenient to go into all the details, we inform you that the faction has decided on its part to support the enterprise with everything it can. It is best not to enter into further correspondence with him. The money (1000 p.) was sent to you by telegraph through the Lyon credit in the name of Chkh[eidze] on the same Wednesday as promised. It is not our fault if for some reason they do not give you the telegrams and Chkh[eidze] does not give you the money. We need home addresses. Now we have taken measures to get 1000 rubles to Chkheidze. was given to Chkheidze. Let him on his part also go immediately to St. Petersburg. The Lyon loan and do his best. You will get the second thousand from us soon, if things go well. We advise you to start without waiting for the second thousand. There will be no stopping for us. We'll find a good foreign chronicler. Keep us informed and inform us in advance about the desired topics and sizes. We haven't heard a word from you about the magazine2. Is it so difficult to find a paid secretary and an application form1*. We have been asking for it for months and months, but we have not received any answer. There is a reason to despair. In fulfillment of the previous condition (which you also repeat in your last letter, saying "two editors known to you, the third place is yours"). We are replacing the third place now temporarily with a comrade, who will be appointed for the time being by St.Gr. Turutin (in consultation with some collaborators and friends). We hope that it will be possible to settle this issue without conflicts and bickering, which we would very much like to avoid: you appointed two, we appointed one, and they will get along without a quarrel. The main and basic thing for us is that there should be no idukhuliquidators, no idukhugospod from "Our Dawn "3 , no spirit of otzovists and makhists, otherwise neither we nor Plekhanov will go. Therefore, we insist on the placement of our articles (in spite of their seeming "outdatedness") with an ultimatum. The other day we will send more articles against "Our Dawn". Be sure to write in detail and more often2*.

Yesterday I wrote to you, today I received your letters - I answer immediately. Write. It is necessary to find out the case sooner and to get results.

Your ...

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 2684 - perlustration (typewritten text).

1* So in the document; may be: "a clue".

2* On the perlustration there is a note of an official of the Police Department referring to the last paragraph: "In another handwriting"

1This refers to the publication of the legal newspaper "Zvezda" in St. Petersburg.

Having received a request from N.G. Poletaev, a member of the Social-Democratic faction of the Third State Duma, to expedite the sending of money for the preparation of the newspaper, V.I. Lenin and G.E. Zinoviev forwarded it to the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP on October 24, 1910, and on October 13 (26) asked the ZBCC to speed up the dispatch of 1000 rubles from the sums transferred to the "holders", according to the decisions of the January 1910 plenum of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (see: Lenin V.I. Complete Works, vol. 47, pp. 298-299). On October 28 (November 10), 1910 a letter to V.D. Bonch-Bruevich was sent on the same subject (about the publication of a newspaper) (see ibid., pp. 279-280). See also doc. 24.

"Zvezda" - periodical, legal Bolshevik newspaper, published in St. Petersburg from December 16 (29), 1910 to April 22 (May 5), 1912.

2This refers to the journal "Mysl".

"Mysl" - philosophical and socio-political journal of the Bolsheviks. It was published in Moscow from December 1910 to April 1911. Five issues were published.

3 "Nasha Zarya" - a monthly legal journal of the Menshevik liquidators, published in St. Petersburg from 1910 to 1914.